The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-02-10
ALL SORTS.


10 be made thirteen years.
A station on the Wilkesbarre and Western
railroad In Pennsylvania Ia named "Let 'er
Co."
There were 4S2 works Of fiction published
In this country last year, az against All re-
ligious books and ll5 biographical ones.
Australians receive more mail matter than
any other people, the annual average being
twenty four postal cards and letters 10 each
person.
Twenty-eight hundred thousand handker-
chiefs, with Queen Victorias picture on them
will 10 distributed on the occasion OF her
golden jubilee
Noah Webster's spelling book, which the
author was first enabled to publish in 1854 by
the aid Of a loan from Joel Barlow, became
an immediate success. The next year the
sales averaged 800 copies week. In lA'
a, 0OO, 900 copies had been sold, and after that
the sales for n long period averaged l,Ooo,Oo
year. 1t is still in use in many schools.
The MARQUIS OF Queensberry is said TO have
offered TO pay $40, 900 toward the fund to be
used in sending Stanley TO tho relief OF Emin
Bev. but Stanley preferred to pick his com
pany and declined 1t is calculated that 1t
will cost 81, 900 TO carry each European from
start to finish, and it is for this reason that
Stanley decided to depend almost entirely
upon the natives.
Ten wears ago Miss Julia A. Malcolm, a
school teacher at New Haven, Conn, had
iokingly presented to her by n friend deed
OF certain lands in Colorado, which at the
time were considered worthless by the owner.
She had nearly forgotten the matter, when
the other day letter came from Colorado
Offering her $3.50, 900 for the land, a rich mine
having been discovered on it, The offer was
accepted.
History is apparently not a strong point In
Victoria schools, according to The Bulletin
published in Sydney the capital OF the
province. Inspector Taylor, who ofiiciateS IN
that colony, complains in his report that many
children have hardly an idea who Queen Vic
toria is and that when he asked What the
Prince of Wales would be when the queen
died" tho unanimous answer was, please,
sir, an orphan"
A japanese, whose name is Okaura, has
been q great social lion at New York for the
l
try he had never been outside of Japan, and
vet he speaks the English language perfectly,
and writes it with great fuency. lie was
sent here by his government TO report upon
the progress Of the fine arts III the United
States and in Europe He is an artist HIM
self, a poet, a musician and a warrior and O
man of extraordinary intellectual powers.
Satisfactory results having been obtained
/ from trials made in the Azores, on the failure
of the orange crop, to utilize sweet potatoes
| for the production of flour and spirits, Q
/ French chemist, connected with the Frencr
Antilles. NJ. Ralu, has lately taken out patents
for improvements in these two industries
| The latter seems likely TO obtain large pro
portions The sweet potato of Martinique
Yields Il litres of alcohol at 100 dogs. per lOJ
| kilos weight Of roots, and it is probable thai
/ the produce Of other islands and OF the south
ern continent Of America will yield about the
same quantity. Ordinary potatoes only yield
about three TO four litres.
/ In the course of the discussion which re
Gently occurred with regard TO the dress OF
/ Japancse ladies and the introduction OF for
| eien costume, considerable importance wa
! attached to the expense of the latter. The
/ Japancse were reminded that they were about
70 adopt fashion which would cost the
nation millions every year The criticism i
certainly true, but there are exceptions to The
general rule During the Ming period CHI
uese weavers manufactured a cotton stun
called sarasa. woven sometimes III minute
sometimes in bold designs, the colors OF
which. partly from their original excellence
and partly from the mellowing effects OF age
are simply Incompatible For little STRIP
of this celebrated material, large enough t
pass round her neck and form ham yerl.
/ Japanese belle has been known to pay any
thing from 500 to $1,000
The invitations to the presidents state r.
ceptions are given to private citizens by Col
Wilson i'm person When Mrs. CleyelanC
visited the White House in March, 1883, sh'
was Miss Folsom, the school girl. One aSreea
bic Young man in one of the departments
who had been very polite in his attentions t'
the White House visitors of two years ago
was put upon this list. Col Wilson went t
his boarding house and asked for the young
man. but he was out Can you leave mes
sacalr said the landlady. Eyes. | am sen
from the White House to say to Mr.. -' IA
this the landady imagined that her harmless
looking young man was about to be ARRESTED
and flung into the Bastile for some dreadful
offensel that the president and Mrs. Cleve
land will be pleased to see him at their thre
state receptions and at the public leyee o
February d. The landlady stood aghaSt
and the boarders-well, they thought grea
deal more Of that young man.